Olivia Solon / Bloomberg: Research: ahead of Slovakia’s parliamentary elections, AI-generated deepfake videos of politicians are spreading on Facebook, Telegram, and other platforms — Videos featuring AI-generated deepfake voices of politicians are spreading on social media ahead of the Slovak… Continue Reading →
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Valve announces SteamVR 2.0 in beta, with an updated keyboard, Steam Chat and Voice Chat integration, and an improved Store, after teasing the project in 2019 — Valve built up to virtual reality for a… Continue Reading →
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Doc: Booking.com accuses the EU of using “misleading” and “selective” facts to block its €1.63B Etraveli acquisition and plans to challenge any ban in court — US online travel site says Brussels has not shown… Continue Reading →
David Shepardson / Reuters: A group of 18 state AGs backs Montana’s effort to ban TikTok, urging a US judge to reject legal challenges ahead of the January 1, 2024, effective date — A group of 18 state attorneys general… Continue Reading →
Taylor Lyles / IGN: Q&A with Apple executives Jeremy Sandmel and Tim Millet on the company’s gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro, MetalFX upscaling, gaming controllers, and more — Apple is really leaning into the “Pro” aspect of the… Continue Reading →
Ignacio Gonzalez / Bloomberg: Visa’s credit card disputes hit 90M+ in 2022, up 24% in 2020 and ~2% in both 2021 and 2022, widely attributed to the online shopping shift since the pandemic — – Visa fields 90 million disputes… Continue Reading →
Bloomberg: Code in Uber’s iPhone app suggests the company is working on a TaskRabbit-like service, codenamed Chore, to let users hire people to conduct various tasks — – Uber is looking for new ways to grow beyond rides, deliveries — … Continue Reading →
Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning: Senator Marsha Blackburn, the Kids Online Safety Act’s lead sponsor, says the US legislation would be used to “protect minor children” from transgender people — The lead sponsor of the “Kids Online Safety… Continue Reading →
Bloomberg: DappRadar: monthly NFT trading volume fell 81% between January 2022 and July 2023, while monthly NFT sales dropped 61%; bitcoin is up nearly 55% in 2023 — When you look at the charts, “everything is down.” — NFTs first… Continue Reading →
Washington Post: Interviews with 36 Remotasks workers in the Philippines, who annotate data for Scale AI customers in the US, reveal delayed, reduced, or canceled payments — CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines — In a coastal city in the southern Philippines,… Continue Reading →
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